The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an iconic civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King and spent more than six decades ...

Noral Parham is the multi-media reporter for the Indianapolis Recorder, one of the oldest Black publications in the country.

“I don’t subscribe to the narrative,” Killingsworth said of the notion that the Black hurts a woman’s chances of marriage. “In fact I see it just the opposite. The Black church has long been a place ...

Family separation often leads to PTSD, anxiety, depression, and reduced life expectancy in detained children. Child welfare, juvenile justice, and immigration enforcement separate families under the ...

The 1939 musical masterpiece *The Wizard of Oz* tells the tale of a Kansas farm girl swept away by a tornado into a magical ...

We may have come a long way, but that doesn’t mean there’s not more to do. Let us use Black History Month as a way to ...

Legal scholar Dorothy Roberts reexamines her own family story. Critic David Bianculli recommends TV to watch. Author Heather McGhee says Martin Luther King Jr. would be inspired by today's activism.

Dorothy Roberts’ father was a white anthropologist who studied interracial marriages and her mother was a Black woman from Jamaica. She always assumed her parents' relationship inspired her father’s ...

In 2024, a modernized revival of the show — incorporating more contemporary slang and music — finally returned to Broadway.

When my father died, I inherited hundreds of transcripts from interviews he conducted with interracial couples in Chicago. He ...

Roberts based the book on a collection of interviews her father conducted with interracial couples in Chicago between the 1930s and the 1980s.